Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: King, Sallie B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes what Buddhism has to offer in envisioning the possibilities of "living well" here and now for individuals, society as a whole, all sentient beings and the planet itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000393545
• Artikelnr.: 61610742

Autorenporträt

Sallie B. King is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University, USA and Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I The Ancient Buddhist World 1. A Map of the Good Life:
The Thirty-Eight Blessings of the Mägala Sutta 2. Compassion Blesses the
Compassionate: The Basis of Human Flourishing in Buddhist Thought and
Practice Part II The Contemporary Buddhist World 3. Ambedkar's Buddhist
Vision: A Social Democratic Republic 4. The Good Life as Envisioned by A.T.
Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Movement 5. The Development of Wellbeing:
Gross National Happiness and Bhutan's Vision for the Ideal Society 6. The
Good Life: A Tibetan Understanding 7. Venerable Pomnyun's Jungto Society: A
Buddhist Activist Movement in South Korea 8. Thich Nhat Hanh and the
Nonviolent Society 9. Tzu Chi: Buddhist Compassion Relief and the
Bodhisattva Path to a Good Society 10. Japan's Soka Gakkai: Transforming
the Human Spirit to Save Humanity from Itself 11. Gary Snyder's Vision 12.
Mutual Morality: Joanna Macy's Vision of the Great Turning